j o staurnes writes:
>> The first is that the select() timeout won't work under linux ---
>> linux, being a more annoying flavor of UNIX, will zero-out the timeval
>> passed to select. Yeah, I think it's dumb too. Anyway, the following
>> #ifdef's in the patch fix it.
> I disagree, Linux is one of the few OS' that select works as it
> should. The timeval structure is modified according to the elapsed
> time in the select call.
Depending on your version of linux. 1.2.11 zeros the damn thing
out. Perhaps a bug later fixed. Regardless of my opinion, it's still a
bug in libwww that doesn't restore it.
-Erik